Katie Heaney
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| Born | 1986 (age 39–40) Minnesota, United States |
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Katie Heaney (born 1986) is an author and former BuzzFeed editor and senior writer for The Cut.[1] Her books include Never Have I Ever, Dear Emma, Would You Rather?, Girl Crushed, and The Year I Stopped Trying.
Heaney's first book, written while she was working as an editor at BuzzFeed, was Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date, published in 2014. The memoir chronicles her life up until age 25 and recounts how she had not, before that point, had a boyfriend.[2][3]
In 2016, Heaney's modernization of Jane Austen's Emma was published.[4][5]
In 2018, Heaney published a second memoir, Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out. Would You Rather? deals with Heaney's path to coming out and realizing her sexuality.[6]
Her first young adult novel, Girl Crushed, was published in 2020.[7]
Her second young adult novel, The Year I Stopped Trying, was published in 2021.[8] In 2021, Heaney published a controversial article in The Cut titled, "The Memory War."[clarification needed][9]
Shortly after, fellow journalist Carrie Poppy released a series of letters to the editor on Medium, including one from memory expert Elizabeth Loftus, demonstrating a large number of factual and contextual errors committed by Heaney in her recount of statements made by her interviewees and her summary of memory research.[10]
